On the other side of the Chechen war. 2nd edition, corrected and supplemented. Alekhin G.T.

When the guns say, the muse are silent. So they thought in antiquity. Today, the muse shouts guns, and often they are successfully replaced. The information war has become one of the main ways to conduct armed conflicts. Military journalist Colonel of the reserve Gennady Alekhin was in the thick of the bloody events in the North Caucasus. He headed the military newspapers of the 58th Army and the North Caucasus District, a press center of the United Group of Troops. For many years he worked with a key figure in the events of that time - General Gennady Troshev, perhaps, the first military leader who led combat operations to understand and realized the significance of the information component. All journalists called him the main newsmaker. Why was the information war in the first Chechen campaign lost, how were the work on the information support of the troops and the relations of generals with journalists in the war zone built, what conclusions were the leaders of the law enforcement agencies? These and other issues became the main in this book. The author’s sketches are supplemented by the memories of journalists, writers who have repeatedly been communicated with the legendary general. An honest, impartial view of events that became a public property. The book uses pictures of V. Svartsevich, V. Matytsin, A. Maksimov and from the author’s personal archive.